{"id":2488,"date":"2018-08-02T21:01:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T21:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/just-check-in\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T18:11:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:11:55","slug":"just-check-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/blog\/just-check-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Check In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4747\" src=\"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dani-vivanco-558829-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"773\" height=\"514\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"artcred\">\n\tWords: <span style=\"color: #ca877f;\"><a style=\"color: #ca877f;\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\"> Christen Hammons<\/a><\/span>\n\t<br\/>\n\tPhoto credit: <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Dani Vivanco<\/a><\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s amazing what a few well-timed words delivered via text message can do to make you feel loved and supported. I\u2019m not talking about an \u201cI love you\u201d text from a spouse. No, this text came from a friend and just the right time, and it\u2019s changed how I\u2019m approaching my friendships.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI know life\u2019s been stressful for you lately. How are you holding up?\u201d<\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was simple, and maybe to others it would be no big deal, but it meant the world to me. Maybe it\u2019s my stereotypical middle-child self, but in the moment I felt seen and heard. She didn\u2019t just brush off my comments as silly complaints. No words of advice were offered; it was just a check-in, really. What my friend didn\u2019t know was that I was quickly heading toward an anxiety attack, and her text took me slowed me down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So now, I remind myself to check in with my friends. To really pay attention to what they\u2019re dealing with and let them know in an unobtrusive way that I\u2019m here. As adults, our days are filled to the brim with a lot of different responsibilities, and with our attention often focused on our spouses and our jobs, our friendships can get a little neglected if we\u2019re not careful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just check in. It takes just a couple seconds, but the impact can be huge. Ask how that doctor\u2019s appointment went. Ask how that new restaurant she tried was. Make your friends feel seen and supported, and I promise they will do the same for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s amazing what a few well-timed words delivered via text message can do to make you feel loved and supported. I\u2019m not talking about an \u201cI love you\u201d text from a spouse. No, this text came from a friend and just the right time, and it\u2019s changed how I\u2019m approaching my friendships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellagracemagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}